DANCE-A-THON SET FOR NOV. 18 What can we do for so many of our family and friends who courageously fight or have lost their battle to cancer? We can do what we all do best: dance! On Nov. 18 at…
Month: October 2018
Commonwealth Launches Campaign to Reduce Stormwater Pollution
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), in partnership with the Statewide Stormwater Coalition, announced the launch of a new stormwater awareness campaign to help Massachusetts cities and towns comply with new federal stormwater management requirements. The announcement was made…
ACE Mentor Program Offers Opportunity in the Architecture, Construction and Engineering Industries
ACE Mentor Program of Greater Boston is a free after-school program run by local design and construction professionals with the goal of inspiring high school students to pursue careers in the architecture, construction and engineering industries. Students have the opportunity…
Pumpkin Dash 2018 Set for Sunday
For the Fourth year, the Revere Beach Partnership is hosting The Great Pumpkin Dash on Oct. 14 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Kelly’s Roast Beef on Revere Beach Boulevard. Registration opens at 8:30 a.m. Featured this year is…
Revere Schools Expand New Grading System, Hope to Take It Districtwide in Near Future
When report cards come home for fourth-and fifth-graders across the Revere Public School district in early December, not a single student will have an ‘A.’ No one will have an ‘F’ either. That’s because the schools this year have begun…
The Rumney Marsh Burial Ground Guided Tour on Oct 13
The Ye Olde Rumney Marsh Burial Ground Renovation Committee (RMBGRC) is presenting a Guided Tour and scavenger hunt of the only cemetery in Revere on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 10 a.m. Visitors are welcomed to meet at the 44 Butler…
Women’s Health Forum Oct 10
Because of his commitment to women’s health issues, Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo will once again sponsor the Women’s Health Forum on Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 6-8 p.m. at Winthrop High School. “In its 21st year, this forum provides…
Conservation Commission Chair Calls for Stop to Marine Animal Beach Burials
When the clams and the whale washed up on shores of Revere Beach a few weeks ago, Interim Conservation Chairman Nick Moulaison Sr. gave the okay for everything to be buried on the beach in deep holes. Now since a…
Revere Resident Launches New Disco Dance Studio:Dance Partners Farina, Poverman Begin as New Business Partners, form KC Dance
After meeting at a dance studio party in Allston 11 years ago, Revere resident Chris Farina and Chelsea native Karen Padulsky Poverman have been dance partners at local clubs ever since. “I was out with my girlfriends and he asked…
Police Briefs 10-10-2018
Police News STOLEN GUN Revere Police arrested a man carrying a loaded firearm last Monday, Oct. 1, on Garfield Avenue. Around 10:30 a.m., officers observed the man, who is known to them, acting suspiciously as he walked on Garfield Avenue.…
Massachusetts Must Move Forward on Our Own
With the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, coming on the heels of the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch, it is clear that the America as we have known it for the past 70 years, a time in…
Sports 10-10-2018
RhS sports Roundup The Revere Miracle: Pats tie at 0:00, then win in OT against Medford One could almost hear the echo of Al Michaels’s famous refrain, “Do you believe in miracles?†— if he had been calling the Revere-Medford…
Obituaries 10-10-2018
Richard Page Sr. Loving and caring family man Funeral services were held privately for Richard R. Page, Sr. who died on Sunday, Oct. 7 at the Don Orione Home in East Boston following a long illness. He was 81 years…
The Biggest Loser? Recreation Department Eating Healthy and Drops Weight
It’s safe to say that one employee can make all the difference in the behavior of the office, and that’s exactly what’s been happening for the past few months in the city’s Recreation Department. Last January, 48-year-old Michael Hinojosa, head…
Appreciation:Peter Palladino Was an Icon in the City
The City Hall Pharmacy and later the City Hall Variety was more than a pharmacy, more than a coffee shop. And that’s because Peter Palladino, a true gentleman and highly respected Revere resident and businessman, worked there as the owner…
McKenna Seeks Action on Winthrop Ave Bumpout
City Council Vice President Joanne McKenna is monitoring the continuing concerns being expressed by Beachmont residents in Ward 1 about the bump-out on the Parkway (Route 145) and Winthrop Avenue leading in to the Beachmont section of the city. McKenna…
Revere Public Schools are Getting things Done Right
A Boston Globe editorial in the all-important Sunday edition highlighted the Revere Public Schools as a district that can get things done at the least cost. The Globe editorial was about taking education funding to the next level, and used…
With Funding Questions Unresolved, Supt Kelly said They Can Only Tread Water on MCAS
Only a few years ago, Revere High School (RHS) was one of the top urban schools in the nation and showed gradual, impressive increases in student scores on the MCAS test every year. Then came the meltdown in education funding,…
Council Honors Mickey ‘Say No to Drugs’ for Lifelong Contributions to the Community
Every year on Labor Day Mickey “Say No To Drugs†Casoli delivers an inspirational message to the Revere High School football players about the importance of staying away from drugs and being a leader, not a follower. RHS head coach…
Police Briefs 10-03-2018
Police News GUILTY VERDICT IN MURDER A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted an East Boston man of murder and other charges for his role in the 2015 fatal shooting of 18-year-old Andres Jaramillo in Revere. Jurors deliberated for about…
